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When were you happiest?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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At the South By Southwest Music Festival last March. Few things make me happier than going to concerts, and this was an epic evening.
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This morning, because each day I feel happier.
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Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.
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In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun. Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.
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